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I feel like I owe him a lot. I was basically done with music by the mid-80s. I despised the over-produced, androgynous hair-spray-and-spandex music that was ascendant at the time and MTV in general, I thought, had caused rock to lose its energy and focus and become a shit-show of posing and artsy-fartsy soft-focus video. About 1989, I started to hear new music on the college radio station (KFJC) I was listening to at that time -- music that I could actually feel viscerally as opposed to simply passively consume. At the time, I had sold all my gear, being focused on my new career and my family.
After hearing early Nirvana, Mudhoney, etc. I went out and got myself a Squier II SSH strat, a Peavey Rage amp, and haven't looked back since.
I feel the opposite on the subject. I was 14 in 1987 when I started playing guitar. I loved all those 80's hair bands and also the 80's metal too. When Nirvana and the Seattle movement came out I hated that suddenly everyone (seemingly) could barely play 4 chords. It spelled the end of the shredder guitar player and I wasn't happy about that!I feel like I owe him a lot. I was basically done with music by the mid-80s. I despised the over-produced, androgynous hair-spray-and-spandex music that was ascendant at the time and MTV in general, I thought, had caused rock to lose its energy and focus and become a shit-show of posing and artsy-fartsy soft-focus video. About 1989, I started to hear new music on the college radio station (KFJC) I was listening to at that time -- music that I could actually feel viscerally as opposed to simply passively consume. At the time, I had sold all my gear, being focused on my new career and my family.
After hearing early Nirvana, Mudhoney, etc. I went out and got myself a Squier II SSH strat, a Peavey Rage amp, and haven't looked back since.
I feel the opposite on the subject. I was 14 in 1987 when I started playing guitar. I loved all those 80's hair bands and also the 80's metal too. When Nirvana and the Seattle movement came out I hated that suddenly everyone (seemingly) could barely play 4 chords. It spelled the end of the shredder guitar player and I wasn't happy about that!
Now, 20-25 years later I can listen back on that music and appreciate it for what it was but back then I hated it.
And compared to the trash coming out today, I'd gladly take those 4 chord bashers!!
I never understood why guitar players bashed the Seattle bands. Jerry Cantrell is a monster on guitar (Eddie Van Halen heard them and had them open on a Van Halen tour)and Pearl Jam had solos all over the place. Soundgarden were riffing machines with heavy guitars. The only Seattle band that didn't have great playing was Nirvana. It's almost like people only heard Smells Like Teen Spirit and bashed the whole scene.
Yeah, I said Seattle but the 3 bands you mentioned, I actually like. I should have made reference to the scene that followed them.I never understood why guitar players bashed the Seattle bands. Jerry Cantrell is a monster on guitar (Eddie Van Halen heard them and had them open on a Van Halen tour)and Pearl Jam had solos all over the place. Soundgarden were riffing machines with heavy guitars. The only Seattle band that didn't have great playing was Nirvana. It's almost like people only heard Smells Like Teen Spirit and bashed the whole scene.
Yes, Chad is a hell of a lot smarter than he looks....amirite???As usual, Chad is right. I was deep in the thrash/death scene at the time and loved grunge. Poor songwriting and laughable aesthetics killed the Shred scene, not Cobain.
Yes, Chad is a hell of a lot smarter than he looks....amirite???
Lol....kidding!!!